Description

Dr. Nadarajah Vasanthan is an associate professor of chemistry at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus. Dr. Vasanthan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in general, physical and polymer chemistry. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1993 from the City University of New York, an M.A in chemistry in 1990 from City College of New York and a B.Sc. (Hon) in chemistry in 1986 from the University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka. Dr. Vasanthan completed his post-doctoral training at North Carolina State University (1993-1995) with Professor Alan Tonelli in the area of fiber and polymer science. He worked as senior scientist at AlliedSignal and TRI/Princeton from 1995 until 2004 when he joined the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the Brooklyn Campus, where he currently serves as professor.

Dr. Vasanthan specializes in physical chemistry of polymers, polymer physics and spectroscopy of polymers. The primary research activities in his group focus on (1) structure development of polymer films and fibers; (2) formation and characterization of polymer nanocomposites; (3) inclusion compounds; and (4) effect of microstructure on degradation of biodegradable polymers. A member of several professional organizations including the American Chemical Society, Fiber Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has published more than 50 papers in a variety of polymer journals.

Co-author, “NMR Observation of Isolated and Stretched Polymer Chain in Their Crystalline Inclusion Compound Formed with Small molecule Host Clathrates,” published in Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry (1994)

Co-author, “Conformational and Motional Characterization of Isolated Poly(-caprolactone) Chains in Their Inclusion Compounds,” published in Macromolecules (1994)

Co-author, “FTIR and NMR Observations of Inclusion Compounds,” published in PMSE Preprint (1994)

Co-author, “The Inclusion Compound Formed Between Poly(-caprolactone)-Polybutadiene Diblock Copolymer and urea,” published in Macromolecules (1994)

Co-author, “Inclusion Compound Formed Between Poly(L-lactic acid) and Urea,” published in Macromolecules (1994)

Co-author, “Polymer-Polymer Composites Fabricated by the In Situ Release and Coalescence of Polymer Chains from Their Inclusion Compounds with Urea into a Carrier Polymer Phase,” published in Polymer Preprint (1997)

Co-author, “NMR Relaxation Observations of the Constrained Segmental Motions of Block Copolymers in the Narrow Channels of Their Inclusion Compound Crystals Formed with Urea,” published in PMSE Preprint (1997)

Co-author, “Polymer-Polymer Composites Fabricated by the In Situ Release and Coalescence of Polymer Chains from Their Inclusion Compounds with Urea into a Carrier Polymer Phase, published in the Journal of Applied Polymer Science (1997)

Co-author, “Formation, Characterization and Segmental Motions of Block Copolymers in Their Urea Inclusion Compound Crystals,” published in Macromolecules (1997)

Co-author, “Investigation of Brill Transition of Nylon 6 and Nylon 66 by Infrared Spectroscopy,” published in Macromolecules (1998)

Co-author, “Structural and Conformational Characterization of Poly(ethylene naphthalate) by Infrared Spectroscopy,” published in Macromolecules (1999)

Co-author, “Formation and Characterization of Thiourea Encapsulated Polyethylene Oxide,” published in Polymer (2008)

Co-author, “Structural and Conformational Changes During Thermally Induced Crystallization of Poly (trimethylene terephthalate) by Infrared Spectroscopy,” published in the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics (2008)

Co-author, “Effect of Microstructure on Hydrolytic Degradation of Poly (L-lactic acid) by FTIR Spectroscopy and Differential Scanning Calorimetry,” published in Polymer Degradation and Stability (2009)